I am socially minded and am passionate about gentrification without displacement.

As I've said before, listen to Brandon Turner's podcasts and webinars where he tells how much he lost on his early deals for not knowing any better.Education doesn't cost - lack of education costs.Keep your passion for REI, if you can.

I love your passion and great love for your kids as your motivation in doing what you are doing!

Looking to network with anyone in the Milwaukee area that shares the same passion!

Even though I have a career of passion (that I would do and HAVE DONE for free for many years) money does play a certain roll (any fellow drummers out there?

So three things for me are read the right books, hangout with the right people ( people who you want to be like) and the third is being passionate about what you do.

My advice is to believe in yourself, your solution, and be very authentic to the person on the phone.This will make your success rate much higher than any script ever could.I see you have some passion inside by your tone in the thread, now channel that energy into as many phone calls a day as you can make, and success will follow!

FWIW, I *despise* ringless voicemails with the passion of 1,000 burning suns. 

I want to flip because I am passionate about it and really want to do it.

I have graduated with a degree in accounting, but my passion is in real estate.